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Drug-related deaths outpace car crashes and gun deaths, tracking misogynistic acts as hate crimes, inmates strike nationwide over working conditions, and Johns Hopkins to study role of environmental factors in shaping kids' health. Each week PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention.
PI Founder Larry Cohen’s upcoming book, Prevention Diaries, gives voice to the quiet prevention solutions taking shape across the US – the people working to reinvent our healthcare system to support health and wellbeing in the first place, the communities mobilizing to no longer accept violence within homes and neighborhoods, the networks that come together to ensure everyone has access to affordable healthy food and safe places to be active.
In response to former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner’s release from prison after serving a mere three months for the rape of an unconscious student, California lawmakers passed AB 2888. The bill, if signed by Governor Jerry Brown, would create a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in prison for any person convicted of rape or sexual assault of an unconscious person, with no ability for that person to get probation.
We are deeply saddened by the news that Alfred Olango, a Ugandan native living in El Cajon, Calif., was shot dead by police following a call from his sister asking for assistance with a mental health crisis. Olango's death does not stand alone, but rather is the latest in a long line of deaths of mentally ill people at the hands of police, a burden that falls most heavily on communities of color.
White House issues new Housing Development Toolkit, the need for child care and paid family leave, youth concussion reports spike, immigrants and racial justice advocates protest use of for-profit detention facilities. Each week PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention.